ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,258, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus that determines timing of sampling and holding" was invented by Takashi Takasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Iwashita (Tokyo), Kosuke Terui (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryuichi Fujimoto (Tokyo) and Takeshi Noda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels configured to detect radiation, and a controller configured to obtain a radiation generation condition related to a radiation generating apparatus during fluoroscopic imaging, and determine, during the fluoroscopic imaging, ...